Most people are blasé at best on the different open source licenses, and don’t take any time to chose between them. So if you only read this first paragraph, make sure to use a license like Apache, MIT, or BSD and not GPL! No other license...
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A subject that is in debated more than standardized
You Should Use __all__
In the latest Python Weekly issue 607, there was a well written article by James Turk called You Don’t Need __all__ (waybackmachine backup link) which seemed to miss an important point I wanted to discuss. With no way to comment on his blog, I decided might...
Continue reading...Stop Re-Encoding Videos!
I know this may sound like a weird statement coming from the author of FastFlix, but from the bottom of my heart, please stop the needless pixel loss! Every time you re-encode (aka transcode) a video it losses information, which lowers the quality and makes it...
Continue reading...Let it Djan-go!
Do you know someone who hails from the strange land of Django development? Where there are code based settings files, is customary to use a ORM for all database calls, and classes reign supreme. It’s a dangerous place that sits perilously close to the Javalands. Most...
Continue reading...How NOT to call Robinhood’s secret API with Python
This article is meant to go over the basics of calling an API via Python, as well as a critique of a top google result I recently ran across. We will start by using Robinhood’s undocumented API, as I saw this article that had python code...
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